In a post titled “The Walls Are Crying”, a blogger reflects [ru] on Kazakhstan's slowly disappearing Soviet artistic mosaics that once adorned housing blocks and industrial facilities across the country:

Many of these works of art died along with the buildings which they adorned. Some are being destroyed. But many mosaics can still be seen, and they are in a great state. They are like ghosts of an epoch gone by, reminding us of the country that does not exist any longer, of which we once were part.